Otago Central Notes. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2159, 11 July 1895, Page 19

Otago Central Notes. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Miners are taking advantage of the splendid Bupply of water at their disposal now, and none are to be seen idle. Everything points to a most successful year's operations. The directors of the Undaunted Gold Mining Water Race Conip.my htld a nuetioir in Tinkers on Saturday la-t to consider overtures made by the Mountain Race Gold Mining Company to amalgamate, but the meeting decided not to amalgamate. A meeting of bhareholders of the former company was held immediately after the directors' meeting to frame rules, *c. for the company's working. I under BtanH between 260z and 270z of gold was taken from a box temporarily ringed in a pa-t of the Undaunted working* for very little sluicing, and that theyeir'spro^p^cts. are very encouraging. The Ophtr Dredging Company are again expeiienciug bad luck, their dredge going to the foott mi to prospect on its own account. The dredge now lies in a very awkward position, being broadside on to the current, and if the river continues rising it is likely to be swept down the river. The Kenny Brothers and a large party are Wot king below the Gorge on the right-hand bank of the Manuherikia river, and I hear they are •anguine of a big haul.